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Prodigal Son - Season 1
Malcolm Bright has a different experience in his life as he is a person with the ability to know the killers, how their minds work and the extent of their planning. Bright, the best criminal psychologist, is working to uncover these killers everywhere. Bright seems to be using his twisted genius to help the New York police find the most serious crimes.
4 June 1964, London, England, UK
20 September 1983, London, England, UK
21 December 1952, Newark, New Jersey, USA
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 February 1970, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
30 March 1961, Newark, New Jersey, USA
September 23, 2019
I'd be happy to watch any version of Prodigal Son that was entirely Sheen, Young and Payne sitting around talking... If someone would just send me a weekly cutdown that ditched the rest of the show, this prodigal critic might be convinced to return.
September 20, 2019
Prodigal Son is, at the outset, a dark show that doesn't take its darkness seriously enough.
September 23, 2019
There's enough to recommend Prodigal Son, knowing that Fedak and company have the skills to get things right. But the three best reasons to keep watching are Michael Sheen, Michael Sheen and Michael Sheen.
September 23, 2019
The early going is badly undermined by frequent and hammy flashbacks... The result is a campy tinge that often makes Prodigal Son play like dinner-theater melodrama.
September 23, 2019
Prodigal Son is more than several cuts below that Oscar-lauded classic. Still, it's better than chopped liver, of which Dr. Martin Whitly has shown he knows a thing or two.
September 23, 2019
The best moments, naturally, occur in the scenes between the manipulative, wily Martin and his brilliant but neurotic offspring, who's haunted by a lingering mystery from when he helped put his dad away
September 23, 2019
The ickiness that pervades network crime shows spills through.
September 23, 2019
What happens when you cast Michael Sheen as a brilliant psychopath and serial killer then don't use him for more than eight or nine minutes per episode? We spend the other 30 minutes wondering why he isn't onscreen.
September 23, 2019
Some tonal tweaks could turn this eagerly outrageous crime drama into something enjoyably out there, but for now, it's just the craziest "Silence of the Lambs" knock-off yet.
September 20, 2019
It's a program that provides a creepy jolt while never reveling in darkness for its sake -- perpetually asking what it takes, and what it means, to take control of the potential for evil in oneself, and to each day beat it back.

